Amari L. Hammonds

Amari’s work has spanned a range of legal areas including criminal law, constitutional law, trade secret misappropriation, securities litigation, employment disputes, products liability, and mass torts. Amari also maintains an active pro bono practice representing domestic violence victims and criminal defendants. She has argued in multiple federal Court of Appeals and state appellate courts.

Before joining Orrick, Amari was the 2019-2021 Earl Warren Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General at the California Department of Justice. There, she co-authored the Department’s U.S. Supreme Court briefs defending the Affordable Care Act in California v. Texas, which won the National Association of Attorneys General’s Supreme Court Best Brief Awards in both 2020 and 2021. Amari also received two Attorney General’s team awards for her work on that case and in another case challenging the Trump administration’s border wall.

Amari served as a law clerk to the Honorable Merrick B. Garland of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar of the California Supreme Court.

Prior to law school, Amari worked for the Mayor of New York City, Obama for America, the Democratic National Convention Committee, and two public relations firms in New York City.